Author and historian Michael C. Hardy muses about the War for Southern Independence in North Carolina.

Thursday, February 07, 2013

North Carolina Remembers Chancellorsville

Well I finished North Carolina Remembers Chancellorsville
yesterday. It is a collection of forty-four letters, written by Tar Heel
soldiers, who fought (or had connections) to the May 1863 battle of
Chancellorsville. Thirty of the letters were written within days or weeks of
the battle, while the other fourteen were written in decades after the war.
This is my second such endeavor, the first being North Carolina Remembers Gettysburg. I will probably work on other
collections in the future

Why do I think these types of collections are
important?It gives you a chance to take
what the soldiers themselves wrote, and to go and stand where they stood and
see what they saw. I've done this several times at Gettysburg, like with the
position of the Rowan artillery on the far Confederate right, or in retracing
the steps of the 11th and 26th NCT on day one. Let me encourage you to also do
this. Get a copy of the book, go figure out where the regiment or battery was
(there are many really good map books on the marker), and
read his words. It's like having a movie right before you.

As soon as I have information on publication date and
ordering, I'll get it to you.

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About Me

Michael is the 2010 North Carolina Historian of the Year. He specializes in writing about North Carolina and Civil War history. You can learn more about him by checking out his web page at: michaelchardy.com